What could possibly go wrong??
House bill  3451 slipped under my radar and Eric the Great and I were watching the last legislative session intently. This bill allows all elections officials in all 36 Oregon counties to begin COUNTING, TALLYING, SCANNING ballots seven (7) days before the election. This changes the law from simply-ha!-separating your ballot from the secrecy envelope seven days before to allowing them to SCAN the ballots into their voting machines seven (7) days before the election. And what’s stopping someone from seeing the tally of the votes for Chris Dudley or Dr. Do Over? Tape.
Don’t worry, nobody will EVER want to have to pay the–wait for it—$250 fine for telling anyone the vote count. What could possibly go wrong?
Here’s the helpful video from Multnomah County explaining the change: